Patent Act

Regardless of the precise holding of the Supreme Court’s decision, it seems certain that there will be important and long-term repercussions in both the law and business of computer-implemented inventions.

The Supreme Court is poised, yet again, to decide an issue in Nautilus v. Biosig hardly requiring its review and one that Congress did not even consider in its recent wholesale revisions to the patent laws.

In its forthcoming decision, the Court has an opportunity to return section 101 to its limited role. Further interpreting the judicially-created exceptions, however, will contribute more verbiage to the swamp.